小说插图与图像叙事

The Illustrations of the Novel and Image Narration

小说插图起源于唐代以降的"立铺讲唱",变文变相、话本插图等是目前可见的早期案头化存留,以明清白话小说为典范的插图艺术则是它的超越和复现。从现场讲唱到案头读本是小说叙事的折叠,"插图"就插在叙事册页的褶皱中,以其明见性召唤默存的事迹在读者心目中苏醒。故事图与人物图是小说插图的两大主要类型,它们逃逸册页而独立叙事之所以可能,在于唤起记忆中"象晕"的重新认同。就小说文体的纯粹性而言,图像的插入是符号异类的强制入侵,"图说"是"言说"的抵抗话语,是对沉浸式阅读的解构,"装饰"而非"再现"是小说插图的显在符号表征。

The illustrations of the novel originated from the＂talking and singing show＂of the Tang Dynasty. Bianwen（ 变文）,Bianxiang（ 变相） and the illustrations of scripts for story-telling are the visible forms of the early stage,which are repeated and transcended by the illustrations of the novel in late imperial China. From ＂talking and singing show＂in the scene to the text for reading,which is the folding of the narrative of the novel,＂illustrations＂are inserted in the folds of the narrative text,and bring the evidence to the reader＇s mind. Story painting and figure painting are the two main types of illustrations,and they can arouse the memory of the ＂image halo＂about the novel,so it＇s possible for illustrations to escape the text and form an independent narrative. In the pure style of novel,the insertion of the image is a compulsory invasion of symbolic alienation. The＂ekphrasis＂is the resistance discourse of ＂speech＂,the deconstruction of the immersion reading,so the symbolic representation of a novel＇s illustrations is more of ＂decoration＂rather than of ＂representation＂.